Amelie Van-Elmbt: Last News

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Movie captures glory days of Chelsea Hotel, with nude tenants in hallway

Robert Having his Nipple Pierced.” These days, according to documentary filmmaker Amelie van Elmbt, such boho shenanigans are in short supply. “The sad thing is that all this legacy is somehow fading,” said van Elmbt, co-director of “Dreaming Walls,” a documentary about New York City’s Chelsea Hotel, premiering Friday as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.And some of the hotel’s permanent residents — who total around 50 — are unhappy about an 11-year makeover that turned the onetime headquarters of bohemian living into a sleek tourist attraction“The worst is that the real residents can’t even afford to have a drink in the hotel’s new bar,” van Elmbt told The Post.She is referring to El Quijote, the Spanish restaurant that has been on the ground floor of the 138-year-old Chelsea since 1930, and recently reopened as an upgraded tribute to the original.
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